![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She shows, through the weight of historical evidence, that whiteness is a construction of the powerful, a metaphor the privileged use to define themselves, and a concept “driven by an age old social yearning to characterize the poor as permanently other and inherently inferior”. Painter’s brilliant study forces its readers to look hard at the concept of race, specifically the meaning of “being white”. Its also a much needed book at a time when, despite the mapping of the human genome that tells us otherwise, public opinion tends to regard race as a biological fact rather than a social construction. In fact, it’s a deeply serious, and highly accessible study, of the concept of race itself. The title of acclaimed historian Nell Irvin Painter’s The History of White People may sound a bit like Christian Landers satirical Stuff White People Like. ![]()
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